Do we need another set of Tchaikovsky symphonies? More to the point, do we need them from the little known Melbourne Symphony Orchestra? Having listened and re-listened to these live recordings, the ...

It contains some of his most powerful music, and yet it has always been strangely neglected so that many concert goers are simply not aware of it. It should be enough - it is easily the largest of ...

Throughout the course of the festival, a wide range of orchestras and conductors will give the complete symphony cycle of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. This will include, as well as the six numbered works ...

Tchaikovsky: Symphonies 3, 4 and 6 Onyx (two CDs) Out now This year, it’s six decades since the Liverpool Philhar­monic got the right to call itself Royal. And the orchestra ­celebrates this milestone ...

Tchaikovsky thought his Symphony No. 6 was the best thing he'd ever written - but this masterpiece was unremittingly bleak. All of Tchaikovsky's symphonies are mini-dramas in both human and musical ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Ask the average music lover what they know of Tchaikovsky’s music and the answer is likely to be the big works, ...

Valentina Lisitsa – who always brings such wild and passionate playing – presents what she assures us is the world’s first ever truly complete collection of Tchaikovsky’s solo piano works. And it’s a ...

As a symphonist, Tchaikovsky enriched the repertoire and exerted a vital influence on later composers as diverse as Sibelius, Prokofiev and Shostakovich. Of his first three symphonies, the second ...